Guataubá and Coatrisquie

These two paintings come from Taíno cosmology, reimagining the ancestral deities aka Cemí Guataubá, the messenger of the winds, and Cemí Coatrisquie, the spirit of water and storms.

Through layers of gold, turquoise, and black, the works merge myth and abstraction, creating a visual rhythm that suggests both motion and transformation.

Guataubá embodies energy and disruption, the wind that precedes the storm. Coatrisquie represents flow, regeneration, and the cyclical nature of water.

Together, they explore the balance between creation and destruction that underpins the Caribbean’s natural and spiritual worlds.

I play with Taíno symbolism within a contemporary visual language, bridging ancestral cosmology with modern notions of identity, environment, and the sacred